Author: vboboe
Date: 2005-12-30 01:32
Reeds ... some tongue-in-cheeky perspectives for your consideration
<< only 2 of three were even good and one sounded dead (they are 7.95 each vs 21 for one rdg). >>
... HA! LOL! Look at that willya, you ended up with TWO playable reeds purchased locally for $23.85 (#3 a dud, par for the course) rather than just one hand-made long distance reed for $41? (it costs $20 gas to get the reed, won't rdg mail it to you cheaper than that & save yourself driving time in the bargain?)
... 4-month-old embouchure honks cheap and expensive reeds about the same, eh?
... good luck on your reed-making lessons, the average econo price per playable reed quoted is something to eagerly anticipate way off in the rosy future, after you've gone through the disillusioning fiery expenses involved in the learning curve
... so don't stop buying el cheapo commercially mass-produced reeds any time soon, especially if you can get ones soft enough to play right away, they'll die soon enough, and your embouchure will be more developed by then (remember, salvage the tubes)
Jilted Jones at least gives you nice little reusable plastic boxes to protect each reed (even retirees, just use masking tape to change the label). When the fiddly little plastic hinges break, bit of clear & super-strong duckie tape will make 'em servicable again. Strong elastic band bundles a stackable trio of these plastic boxes together very nicely. When Jones reeds die, you've still got the boxes and the salvaged tubes, ready and waiting to protect your very own hand-made reed/s.
... hm, can you schedule reed-making homework around your top priority daily practice? It takes fumbling inexperienced student 3x to 10x as long to do the same things efficient oboe teacher demo'd in lesson!
:-)
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